Who *doesn’t* feel frisky with a couple of inches of fresh snow on the ground and warm sunshine on your fuzzy coat!? Odin is full of spunk. 🙂
(The snow is mostly melted into the needy soil again, but you won’t blame me for sharing more pix from the day we had a snowclad basin during the next few days.)
Not only did we get the gift of snow Friday, I saw Hollywood on Saturday. 🙂
He’s thin (much more thin than I’d like to see him at this time of year (or any time of year)), but he seems to be relatively OK. He drank at the edge of a frozen pond, then walked away on a trail to the spot where I found him napping in the (relatively) warm sunlight. He didn’t acknowledge my presence much at all (which was OK as it meant he wasn’t bothered), and I was able to walk around and get a good look at him. I couldn’t tell about his eye (napping, he had both of them mostly closed), but other than being thin, he doesn’t seem to have any particular injuries.
He did pick a very scenic location to stop for a midday nap. 🙂
Bonus: Hollywood’s scenery looking across Spring Creek Basin and Disappointment Valley to Utah’s La Sal Mountains, looking pristine under a cover of fresh snow.
If anybody looks as though he’s put on his very finest winter coat for the season, it’s Maiku!
He wasn’t too interested in posing in his snowy world, being much more interested in finding edible bits, but he’s still awfully handsome.
We had a very nice little snowstorm Friday, and the area got anywhere from an inch to at least 4 inches. It didn’t melt right away like the last (first) snowfall. It’s sooooooo beautiful out there!
Sundance, looking handsome as ever during a recent golden, glorious evening.
I mean, really, what else is there to say!?
Kestrel sure knew just how to use that handy branch stob to scratch her itches!
Golden girls in golden light above Spring Creek canyon.
This handsome fellow was spotted a couple of days after the end of fourth rifle season. Some does were nearby. He wasn’t too interested in posing for pix. … I’m just glad he hid himself away the last couple of months.
I keep telling ya’ll there’s magic out there. 🙂
The snow has melted from the lower elevation ground within Spring Creek Basin and lower Disappointment Valley, but here’s another fun snow pic of Chipeta. Her stallion was interested in keeping her with the rest of the band … that’s a young bachelor, with a small group of young bachelors, foraging in the background.
If you look closely, you can see snowflakes against Chipeta’s brown patches. 🙂
McKenna Peak (background) has gotten snow before this, but the main parts of the basin haven’t gotten (sticking) snow until now (yesterday). A lot of it has already melted its wet-snow goodness into the thirsty soil. Now cooooooolllllllldddddd temps the next few days.
The ponies are fuzzy and ready for winter!
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 